Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. Remember how Putin insisted, before the war, that he had no plans to invade Ukraine? Maybe he wasn’t lying after all: maybe he really didn’t have any plan. Just point his troops at the border, tell them “go on, then” and hope for the best.
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  2. “Special Political Operation”!
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  3. Putin may have had a point about the expansion of NATO being unnecessarily provocative. But all that has gone out the window now: the world overwhelmingly sees him as a madman and a war criminal. Pro world-leader tip: if you’re trying to argue against the formation of a defence pact against you, you don’t do it by threatening the safety of countries that are thinking of joining that pact. It kind of undermines your whole argument, you know?
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  4. Solidarity of all the Russian people ... except maybe those in Rostov-on-Don.
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  5.  @milonisk7380  Wow, you managed to say two completely opposite things in two different postings. Must be a confusing time right now in 🇷🇺 Troll HQ.
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  6. Took many decades, and a lot of international cooperation. And money.
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  7. Remember that Ukraine agreed to give up its nukes in return for security guarantees from Russia among others. Turned out those security “guarantees” were completely worthless.
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  8. “Atom” is like a jinxed word. It literally means “cannot be cut”. Yet every time that name has been applied to something, it has turned out be made of smaller pieces.
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  9. Symmetry is a very appealing concept. Particularly since it could also explain why our Universe is mostly matter, with little or no antimatter.
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  10. 🇮🇱 is to 🇺🇸 as 🇰🇵 is to 🇨🇳.
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  11. Big-G seems like a very tricky constant to measure accurately. There have been significant discrepancies between different experiments.
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  12. Largest city in Nigeria?
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  13. It was experimentally discovered, after having been previously theoretically predicted.
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  14.  @gawayne1374  That’s just repeating what you said before.
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  15. I remember somebody filed a lawsuit to try to stop the LHC from being turned on, because of this supposed risk. The suit was chucked out.
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  16.  @milonisk7380  But they were Prigozhin supporters!
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  17. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was fond of pointing out at one point that NASA gets something like half a cent out of each 🇺🇸 federal tax dollar. If that were doubled, to just one cent, it could achieve so much more.
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  18. The IDF has no credibility in being able to investigate itself.
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  19. The thing with curiosity is you can never be sure where it leads. Who knew, back in the 19th century, that playing around with Leyden jars and magnets would lead to the harnessing of electrical power? Or that understanding this weird stuff called “pitchblende” would lead to generation of atomic power? Or that trying to manage noise in telephone circuits would lead to information theory and the development of the electronic computer? Maybe a better understanding of gravity would lead to an actual “space warp” drive that would get us farther and faster across than Universe more easily than we can manage with rockets. Or maybe it will lead to something else. Who knows?
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  20.  @martinc.720  Spammer.
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  21. People in 🇺🇸 seem to be turning more and more away from science.
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  22. Time for her to retire. She can no longer do her job properly ... whatever her job is.
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